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I was at an event over the weekend and someone asked me where my office was located, so I told them at 1 Yonge Street in the Toronto Star building. They replied “Wow you have an office there! Isn’t that expensive?” All I could say was “NO not really” I explained to them that my Toronto office space was a business centre that offered a wide range of office space options, including virtual office space in Toronto. This got them asking more questions. I told them that I originally signed up for a Toronto mail service with Telsec, so that I could get my business mail at a prestigious address rather than a post office box which sounds unprofessional. As I found myself needing a physical office, I then rented a shared office space that gave me access to boardrooms and modern office equipment l...

In previous blogs, I have mentioned the convenience of the complimentary coffee and tea in the two kitchens at Telsec. I have also talked about how you just need to walk down the hall to enjoy a cup of freshly brewed coffee and that it took seconds instead of minutes. I further mentioned that having the coffee down the hall meant not having to go down to a basement food court with no natural lighting to get a coffee. At this time, I want to welcome Tim Hortons to the Toronto Star cafeteria. Yes you can now purchase Tim Hortons coffee at a kiosk store located on the fourth floor, and there are windows overlooking Toronto Harbour (not in the basement without a view). This new availability of Tim Hortons coffee only enriches the choices available to Toronto office space clients. If your parti...

After a long hiatus from golf, Tiger Woods returned to Golf, only to finish fourth at the Masters. Many speculated without the distractions Tiger Woods’ golf game would even get better. But as many golfers will tell you, it is not easy to get your swing back after 6 months away from the game. Only a few minutes away from Telsec’s downtown Toronto office space is the Polsen Pier driving range. While the driving range is open year round, it is this time of year that local golf enthusiasts get the itch to hit a bucket of balls. Unlike the golf courses in Augusta, Georgia (home of the Masters) there are not too many golf courses that are close to downtown Toronto office space, that are open yet. Those with Toronto offices are looking for practice facilities that are convenient to their office...

I had not been to the Easter Parade along Queen Street in many years, in so many years that I forgot they held the parade Easter Sunday. I had planned a photo shoot down along the beach to get some lifestyle shots of a model for an upcoming project, but unlike myself (who arrived very early) the model ran late and could not get anywhere near the Beach to meet me for the shoot. Most of the streets heading into the beach were closed for the parade. Without the model, I could not do the shoot, so I figured since I was down there already, maybe I could get some interesting photos of the parade. Along with the police escort, the three generations of TTC Street Cars, the marching band, and the various floats, also came some unusual entries into the parade. It was odd to see as part of the parade...

A recent study by the Toronto Board of Trade states “Toronto is a great place to live, if only you could manage to get to work”. This study shows that Toronto commute times are getting to be the worst in the world. Of the nineteen big cities included in the study, The average Toronto commute was about 80 minutes. Not only is this 12 minutes longer than the average New York City commute, but it was 24 minutes longer than Los Angeles. New York and LA are the two largest cities in North America and both are notorious for their traffic and gridlock. The European city that is most known for its gridlock and traffic is Barcelona, yet the average commute there was 32 minutes shorter than that of Toronto. It should also be noted that Toronto even fell behind Montreal and London England in terms of...

While Good Friday falls on April 2, 2010 and Easter Sunday is April 4th. Passover will start on Tuesday, the 30th of March and will continue for 7 days until Monday, the 5th of April., Easter is a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Easter is also the end of the Lenten period where many observing Christians have given up certain foods or pleasures. Passover is one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays (Yom Tov), and is commemorated by many affiliated and nonaffiliated Jews alike as a time to contemplate the endurance of the Jewish people throughout history. The culmination of these two religious observations just happen to coincide this year, where some years they end a week apart. The T...

Earth Hour Earth Hour 2010 takes place on Saturday March 27th at 8.30pm (local time) and the lights will be out for an hour somewhere in the world for that hour. Once again, famous and not so famous buildings along with landmarks and little known places will turn off their lights in contemplation of our planet. Houses and businesses located everywhere from Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa, to South America and North America will go dark for one hour. People across the world from all walks of life will turn off their lights in contemplation of our planet. Earth Hour began back in 2007 when 2.2 million homes and businesses in Sydney Australia turned their lights off for one hour. This was to be their way of showing a commitment to climate change. Then one year later more than 50 million pe...

With NCAA (US college) basketball championship underway, March Madness has began. The NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball Championship is a single elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 65 college basketball teams, both conference champions and at-large selections. While The phrase “March Madness” was coined by Henry V. Porter in 1939 to describe an Illinois high school basketball tournament. In 1982 Brent Musburger used the term “March Madness” to describe the madness of the single elimination tournament style that is used in the Men’s Division 1 College Basketball Championship. Another term used to describe this playoff tournament is “The Big Dance” This tournament will determine who the “sweet Sixteen” teams that fight for a place in the “Final...

I was at a social event on Saturday night and overheard a conversation about someone looking for downtown Toronto office space. It did not take long for one of the people involved in the conversation to point me out and say … “you should talk to him, he blogs about office space Toronto”. So I was pulled into this conversation and heard the person who was looking for downtown Toronto office space say that they were frustrated in their search. It seems that they had been looking at a number of raw office space locations downtown and none of them would work for their business. The more I talked to this entrepreneur, the more I learned that what they were looking for was a serviced downtown Toronto office, rather than just a downtown Toronto office location. Their office space downtown n...

First there was the cola war between Coke and Pepsi, then there was the burger war of Wopper versus Big Mac, now its the coffee war of McDonalds versus Tim Hortons. Over the past few years, McDonalds has been stepping up their game when it comes to coffee in order to compete with Tim Hortons. McDonalds took big steps when they introduced their premium blend CafeeRoast, a 100% Arabica coffee and not a blend. Blind taste test after taste test, McDonalds was being chosen hands down over Tim Hortons and Starbucks. But this was not helping them win the coffee war by having the better tasting coffee, they needed to get people to truly try it for themself. For the first two weeks of March McDonalds started handing out free coffee at any time of day, no purchase required. This just happens to coin...